Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Filipe Brandenburger
>>> <filbranden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 16:30, Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I simply need to call 2 php scripts via a website - very simple todo,
>>>>> but cron tends to give me these errors for some odd reason, and the
>>>>> scripts doesn't run on the remote website.
>>>> How are you calling these scripts from cron? lynx? wget? curl? Maybe
>>>> the problem is with the tool you are using to do that. If you give us
>>>> more details, we might be able to help you better.
>>>>>>>> HTH,
>>>> Filipe
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> Hi, yes sorry I should have added that :)
>>>>>> I'm using lynx, as follows:
>>>>>> 9 0 * * * /usr/bin/lynx http://billing/admin/cron.php>>> */5 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx http://billing/pipe/pop.php>>>>> Lynx wants to do cursor positioning which is fairly useless in
>> non-interactive mode. You can give it a terminal type on the command line
>> with the -term= option, but it would probably be better to use wget instead
>> for non-interactive work.
>>
> wget downloads the whole page every time, which wastes bandwidth & HDD
> space. Apart from using the "> /dev/null" option, is there any other
> way to use it?
Lynx is going to send the page to stdout, which cron will collect and
email to you unless you have redirected to /dev/null also, so I don't
see a big difference there. For static pages wget can use -N to only
get copies after they change, and the -O option to control where it
goes, which could be /dev/null if you really never want to see it.
> And with lynx, do I just issue lynx -term=vt100 http://billing/admin/cron.php ?
Yes, but I'd recommend doing 'man lynx', 'man wget', and 'man curl' so
you understand the options and features of each.
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